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NECKTIE HOLDER. No. 313,530. Patented Mar. 10,1885.

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JAMES H. RILEY AND J OHN J. WALSH, OF-WEST TROY, NElV YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 313,530, dated March 10, 1885.

Application filed July 24, 188-1.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES H. RILEY and JOHN J. \VALsH, of the village of West Troy, county of Albany, State of New York, have jointly invented a new and useful Improvement in NecktieI-Iolders, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to that class of devices which are attached to neckties to keep them in place when worn; and our invention consists, as will be more fully described herein after in connection with its illustration, in the combination, with the necktie-support, of a plate made to have a slot that is open at one end to receive the collar stud and closed at the other, and which plate is made with tangs at the sides,or on the latter and the end, that are adapted to be passed through the paste board support and clinched on its inner side to keep the plate in position.

Accompanying this specification, toform a part of it, there is a sheet of drawings, contain ing three figures illustrating our invention, with the same designation of its parts by letter-refcrence used in all of them.

Of these illustrations, Figure 1 shows a view of the back of a necktie-support with our improved holder-plate attached thereto and the support attached to a necktie. Fig. 2 shows the holder-plate in its blank form before the tangs on its side and that on its end (when used) are turned down for attachment. Fig. 3 is a perspective of the holder-plate with the tangs shown as turned down preparatory to being passed through the pasteboard support to be clinched on the latter.

The several parts of the tie-holder and the tie with.which it connects are designated by letter-reference, and the function of the parts is described as follows:

The letter 1? indicates the holderplate, which is preferably made by being stamped from sheet metal in the form shown at Fig. 2, although it may be made without the top tang, if desired. This plate is shown as made'with the tang t at its upper end and the tangs t 2? on its sides, and these tangs are adapted to be passed through the pasteboard support A and be clinched on the opposite face of the latter to connect said plate and support.

The letter S designates aU-forrn slot made (No model.)

in the holder-plate, with the open end 0 of the slot at the bottom of the plate and the closed end near the top of the plate.

The letter T designates the tie, which is attached to the back of the pasteboard support, as indicated at a, after the holder-plate and said support have been connected as before described, the form of the said support being varied to suit the kind of collar with which the tie is to be worn. As thus made, when the tie is in place to be worn, the collar-stud, indicated at B as projecting from the neckband of the shirt at the front, is passed with its head under the edges of the slot made in the plate, with its shank in the slot, as shown at Fig. 1, which connection serves to keep the tie in place, and without the use of an elastic or cravat-tabs, if desired. The ends 6 e of the plate at the bottom and at each side of the slot are slightly curved outwardly for the free passage of the stud-head beneath and the shank of the stud between the sides of the said slot. By reducing the upcurve at the top of the support ends, as indicated by the dotted line d, and connecting the ends of said support with an elastic or cravat-tabs, the tie may be worn with a standing collar.

Thus made and adapted for attachment, the combined holder-plate and support are easily and cheaply produced, and 'it forms a very simple and efficient device for the purposes designed.

WVe are aware thata necktie-holder has heretofore been made comprised of a blank struck into a box-like formation closed at its sides by flanges and having a slot to receive the collarbutton; also, that a device for the purpose has been made comprised of a blank formed with prongs, and a slotted extension adapted to be bent down over on the body 5 and, further, that a necktie-holder has been made of a blank having slotted extensions and ears to secure it to a metallic plate interposed in the body of the tie.

Our improvements consist in a blank formed of two flat arms integrally united at their upper part so as to form a slot between their inner edges, and having the depending ends of the arms curved outward and the fasteningprongs projected directly from the outer edges of the clasping-arms, thus dispensing with a back plate, and adapting the arms of the clasp directly from the outer side edges of the claspto readily receive and to securely retain the ing-arms, substantially as described, and for button and hold the tie in place. the purpose stated. 15 Having thus described our invention, what Signed at Troy, New York, this 20th day of 5 we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- June, 1884, in the presence of the two witent, isk d d nesses whose names are hereto written.

The improved nee tie -l1ol er herein escribed, comprised of the flat plate 1?, formed with side clasping-arms integrally united at p 10 their upper ends to form a slot between their Witnesses:

inner edges, and having outwardlycurved I STANLEY M. HOLDEN, lower ends, 9 e, and side prongs, t projected 1 CHARLES S. BRINTNALL. 

